Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are tapping a former Trump EPA official to become the Environment Subcommittee’s chief legal counsel.
Byron Brown, who served as EPA’s deputy chief of staff for policy in the early days of the first Trump administration, will now play a critical role on the panel, which develops legislation and conducts oversight on his former agency.
Brown had a hand in several of the administration’s major policy moves. He sat on an EPA task force looking to pare back agency rules.
A press release from Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) touted Brown’s “extensive Capitol Hill and executive branch experience,” which includes a stint as senior counsel for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee under former Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.).
